"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” (Proverbs 20:1.)
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"Intoxicating drinks have produced evils more deadly than all those caused by mankind by the great historic scourges of war, famine, and pestilence combined." (William Gladstone)
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Doctor Albert Schweitzer once said beverage alcohol was "commercially our greatest wastrel, socially our greatest criminal, and morally and religiously our greatest enemy."
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Recent studies reveal alcohol to be involved in 23,000 homicides and suicides annually, nearly one million accidental deaths, and almost one-third of all automobile accidents. Roughly one-half of all arrests involve alcohol.
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Perhaps you have heard of the preacher speaking out against the evil of strong drink. As he concluded his message he asked, "Can anyone here name a single honest business that has been helped by the consumption of beverage alcohol?" One man in the audience stood up and said, "I consider my business honest, and it has been helped greatly by liquor." "And what is your business? asked the preacher. "I am an undertaker," came the reply.